Though liberal arts colleges don't acknowledge it in the snazzy brochures they express-mail to high school seniors, many elements of all but the best institutions--the modest franchises, the flimsy finances, the self-preservationist instincts of timeserving faculty--subvert the visionary claims historically made on behalf of higher education.

And crikey, one or two spats aside, the Executive was shaping up to be a lot more useful dealing with the nitty gritty of life than all the government ministers of the last 25 years did, timeserving timewasters some of them were.

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